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After 20 years, and 3283 posts including as much as 1,577,106 phrases I’m wrapping up my time because the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog.
It has been a privilege to have the ability to “live in the future” and to get to study and write about so lots of our improvements during the last twenty years: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to call only a few and to go away many others out. It has additionally been a privilege to have the ability to meet and to listen to from so lots of you which have faithfully learn and (hopefully) realized from my content material through the years. I treasure these interactions and your type phrases, and I hold each in thoughts after I write.
Next for Jeff
I started my profession as a builder. Over the years I’ve written tens of hundreds of strains of meeting code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visual Basic, and PHP, together with a whole bunch of hundreds of strains of C. However, through the years I’ve progressively spent much less time constructing and extra time speaking about constructing. As every new service and have whizzed previous my eyes I might memory about days and a long time previous, after I may truly use these goodies to create one thing cool. I went from being a developer who may market, to a marketer who used to have the ability to develop. There’s completely nothing fallacious with that, however I wish to construct. The medium could possibly be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, electronics elements, and even cardboard –creating and innovating is what motivates and sustains me.
With that as my driving power, my aim for the subsequent step of my profession at AWS is to speculate extra time centered on studying and utilizing fewer issues, constructing cool stuff, and creating contemporary, developer-focused content material as I achieve this. I’m nonetheless working to determine the shape that this may take, so keep tuned. I’m additionally going to proceed to make my weekly appearances at AWS OnAir (our Friday Twitch present), and I’ll proceed to talk at AWS neighborhood occasions across the globe.
Next for the Blog
As for the AWS News Blog, it has lengthy been backed by an superior crew, each seen and invisible. Here we’re on the current AWS re:Invent celebration of the weblog’s twentieth anniversary (photograph courtesy of Liz Fuentes with edits by Channy Yun so as to add those that have been in any other case occupied):
During the celebration I instructed the crew that I stay up for celebrating the 30 12 months anniversary with them at re:Invent 2034.
Going ahead, the crew will proceed to develop and the aim stays the identical: to supply our clients with fastidiously chosen, high-quality details about the newest and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice arms and this crew will proceed to maintain you knowledgeable even because the AWS tempo of innovation continues to speed up.
Thanks Again
Once once more I must thank all of you for the very type phrases and gestures through the years. Once in your life, should you work arduous and get actually fortunate, you get a singular alternative to do one thing that basically and really issues to individuals. And I’ve been fortunate.
— Jeff;